Deployment error on WAS 6.1.0.39

Since upgrading our WAS environment a few weeks ago to WAS 6.1.0.39 from 6.1.0.31 we were getting errors anytime we tried to deploy an application ear file.

The error we were getting was:

Caused by: org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: org.
apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: org.apache.commons.
logging.LogConfigurationException: Class org.apache.commons.logging.
impl.Jdk14Logger does not implement Log

Which looked pretty much like this PMR https://www-304.ibm.
com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21502693 although that only related to WAS 7 and the workaround documented wasn't available at 6.1

IBM did some investigation and a fix was targetted for FP 43 which was of course no use to me. They did provide a temp fix in the shape of IFPM45666 but that didn't resolve the issue.

After having initially to go back to FP37, we were finally provided a workaround that allows us to go back to FP39.

In /deploytool/itp/ejbdeploy.sh by adding -DNoCustomConverter=true we were able to succesfully deploy our applications again.